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I ... the simple principles of success everyone seems to know a few things you should follow your passion he should set clear goals for the things right is that actually help ... our guests today doesn't think so I were joined by Scott Adams cartoonist and author ... I Scott ... they ... will also study of this new book out called how to Fail at almost Everything and Still Win day and one of the things you devote some time to hear this talk about ... how crazy it is in our lives but the picture the in setting out in the business world to follow your passion ... so so what's wrong with that ... we know the prom with full intention is your passion might not be very rational ... so maybe your passion is ... collecting ... stuffed animals ... you're rich and so ... my observation has been the key to a good business plan ... do pretty well and what happens is when things start working ... when you start getting what he would use to make money ... the Assembly has passed ... so my observation is that anybody can get ... something's working ... but it's pretty hard to get passionate about something ... beyond the initial stage that it doesn't work when you're ... very passionate about something when you're of a particular spore or particular kind of pride that ... you lose a little bit of your objectivity ... in trying to gauge how other people will respond to ... the historic throughout the day ... before I was the cutest announced a commercial lender ... now my boss ... always taught us ... that the last guy went in alone to decide when it comes in the past ... yet he says I wanna open a ... sporting goods store because I really like watching sports on TV ... eleven best way to what is the guy says ... I'm getting really good ... business plan ... for a dry cleaning store it's gonna be really boring but with the number is ... so that's the day one of us ... that now what about gold fell another thing completely innocent you could set clear goals for yourself and pursue those goals what's wrong with that ... well goals are located in the place the way it more than goals is up a system ... a process ... so for example ... one of my process is for writing that spot ... was that I ... want every day because it was practice ... because I thought that ... people would read it and they would maybe say Let's reprint this article ... in Wikipedia elected ... REIT that would be a full block ... so I didn't have a ... goal of writing ... the specific book by this day ... the process was pretty sure was going to get it ... so likewise the euro trying to lose weight ... it's a it's the same time to lose ten pounds ... but it's probably a little more useful to say ... to learn how to the right ... to be active every day ... also that the focus of the book and it will surprise some people is failure you think failures good you yourself are proud to say you have failed alot so so what's the deal what what what this failure due first would soon be your biggest failures there ... well first on the choice success is still better than it really well and living that's where ... but in the real world ... of law is the biggest factor in any of the success ... and if you try one thing it doesn't work to stop trying ... why doesn't really have a chance to find ... so I'm ... betting is you try lots ... of ... things that will kill you will bankrupt you love to ... hear reviewed ability to separate ... them ... and just shy of the souls of the works so that that's a rough ride ... and and your own biggest failure or ever biggest failure that you feel like Andrews found them useful lesson or ... or or or or idea from ... well of the email ... so this was in line ... conventional student work it'll be up either they were palpable ... we're in the case of some computer programs that try to open higher on ... the day when ... the skill to pull it off ... the programs that they were ... they were way good enough by the time and finish them technology and move in ... it is something I learned a valuable skill ... so ... my progress still in in in in my day job ... at ... first the bank and then a photo of it ... when those two years old as they did ... I wouldn't occur to date with that with a pretty complete knowledge of the technology world of the business world ... that became fodder for ... were delivered ... so I did ... including all the classes I took during my four years ... were all designed to give me something that would be a ... stronger base ... after I fail that whatever is doing well ... very bad Wolf Scott Adams there are lots of useful lessons in the book and in the excerpt from the book in this weekend's Wall Street Journal ... for The Wall Street Journal weekend Revue I'm Gary Rosen